The rabbit that had not vanishedSourced
No scientific record for decades.
The South African rabbit was found again.
Scientists recorded no riverine rabbits from 1947 to 1979, and the species was thought extinct. It was later found to survive in South Africa, though it remains at serious risk of extinction.
Not seen is not always
the same as gone.
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